My Favorite Podcasts #TryPod

Thursday, 23 Aug, 2018

I’m late to the party, but the Podcasts I listen to have been asking listeners to share their favorites on Social Media, so here goes.

I live in Japan. Although there’s English news here, I like radio, and Podcasts are a great way to keep up with what is going on outside our little archipelago. We’re pretty cloistered here.

For the last couple of months, Podcast producers have been asking for shares, including the hashtag #TryPod, so I thought I would list up the ones I love to listen to. I can’t stand queuing, but we do a lot of it while waiting for trains, so, podcasts come in handy. Also great for the train ride itself, too.

You can subscribe to these podcasts from Apple iTunes, apps like Overcast or Castro on iPhone (I don’t have an Android but there are a bunch of apps you can use like “BeyondPod”, “Stitcher Radio” and others), or on apps from the podcast producers, like NPR’s “NPR One” app.

My Favorite Podcasts

In no particular order:

From Moz://a

Mozilla does important work “to ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all.” The Mozilla Manifesto is worth studying, and it’s great that there is an organization fighting for us, the “Joe and Jane Users” of the Internet. I like the Mozilla IRL podcast, which makes the point that our online lives are real life.

Updates

20180823 - added Glenn Ostlund’s MytholoGuy

20180625 - added a new one Radiotopia’s “ZigZag”, a podcast about “changing the course of capitalism, journalism, and women’s lives”; Radiotopia’s “This is Love” an “investigation into life’s most persistent mystery”; WNYC’s “More Perfect” about the US Supreme Court; “What Trump can teach us about Con Law” about US Constitutional Law; and and Mozilla’s IRL, about why our lives on the internet are “in real life”.